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**Evsltkzl** · 03-01-2012, 05:33 PM

How did Mamluk Egypt restore the Abbasid Caliphate (albeit a figurehead only) after the Mongols destroyed Baghdad?

(It was called the "shadow Caliphate" or the Caliphate of Cairo, Caliph was a figurehead only. The Sultan, who was a Mamluk slave, held all the power. Weird political structure!)

If we want to copy this, we find a willing Ottoman Prince, set him up as figurehead in a suitable country... I think the Ottoman Family would politely decline though...

03-01-2012, 05:33 PM	#36
Evsltkzl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 506 Senior Member	How did Mamluk Egypt restore the Abbasid Caliphate (albeit a figurehead only) after the Mongols destroyed Baghdad? (It was called the "shadow Caliphate" or the Caliphate of Cairo, Caliph was a figurehead only. The Sultan, who was a Mamluk slave, held all the power. Weird political structure!) If we want to copy this, we find a willing Ottoman Prince, set him up as figurehead in a suitable country... I think the Ottoman Family would politely decline though...
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